Sublime

Peut-être que je me trompe, mais je crois que pour être un grand poète il n’est pas absolument nécessaire de boire comme un trou et d’avoir une maladie vénérienne.

But what to do, where to, next? To be a New Yorker is one thing, but to decide consciously to stay, to live out one’s life here? That’s another. I wasn’t sure I had what it takes.

Even in love Lina understands there is competition—a frantic need to be the one who will hurt less than the other.

propriety.

“Maybe, Josef, living safely is dangerous. Dangerous and deadly.”